Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Years. Nixon's critics also had their say. With what looked like partisan craftiness-or recklessness-the Democratic National Committee's weekly newsletter suggested that Nixon may be planning another smashing surprise by settling the Viet Nam War while he is in Peking. It envisioned "a secret summit of leaders from the Asian Communist nations" meeting with Nixon. As supporting evidence, the newsletter claimed that Hanoi's Le Due Tho will be in Peking at the sametime as Nixon. Secretary of State William Rogers knocked down the idea. The Democrats seemed to be building up expectations, presumably...
...Malgache avant le Kirghize, but also--more importantly--that the suffering inflicted upon the Kirghizes in the Soviet Union should not be used to justify those inflicted on the Malgaches in the French Empire. Herein lies the thrust of his "unsparing" and Olympian demolition of Camus who adopted a partisan Cold War attitude on these problems: In support of the absolute right to liberation of the Hungarians whilst denying such a right to the Algerians. Camus, in any event, has no need for illiterate defenders who, lacking his considerable abilities, still crudely soldier on in the cause of the Cold...
Unfortunately, McGovern's forecast may turn out to be right. Even the current political advantages for Nixon could prove to be fleeting. Although the partisan stakes are now confused, the war is once again a center of national attention. Nixon was probably preparing the public for the possibility that he might have to take tough new military measures to meet a renewed Communist offensive?but that would still incite fresh controversy. Moreover, as Nixon continues to pull out troops, down to an anticipated 25,000 or so residual forces by election time, increasing Communist pressure could have an unpredictable political...
Warren Jackson, the coordinator of the conference, said last week that the conference will be bi-partisan, and the members of the Nixon Administration have been invited. "There is no possible of this becoming a political forum, said...
That scene symbolized the real significance of this year's State of the Union message. Needing help from a Democratic Congress in an election year, Nixon used his report, supplemented by a written message, to plead with his foes to put the public interest above their partisan concerns-and thus set them up for censure if they fail to respond to the lofty call to statesmanship. Confident, conciliatory and optimistic, Nixon was at his professional best in a speech honed, through eight drafts, to a taut 31 minutes. Heavy on generalities, soft on specifics, the address was far from...